Slavery and plantation capitalism in Louisiana's sugar country
- 1 September 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in American Nineteenth Century History
- Vol. 1 (3), 1-27
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14664650008567022
Abstract
Sugar planters in the antebellum South managed their estates progressively, efficiently, and with a political economy that reflected the emerging capitalist values of nineteenth‐century America. By fusing economic progress and slave labor, sugar planters revolutionized the means of production and transformed the institution of slavery. Slaveholders and bondspeople redefined the parameters of paternalism and recast the master‐slave relationship along a novel path. Louisiana slaves accommodated the machine, holding no torch for Luddism while concurrently shaping the agro‐industrial revolution to achieve modest economic independence and relative autonomy within the plantation quarters.Keywords
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